Overview of JFK and most of the nine terminals at the airport, taken a day before intense snow storms closed this airport delaying tens of thousands of people trrying to get home or go on vacation, this photo taken from N18066 operating as AA917 to MIA in Domestic First Class!

JFK Airport was originally known as Idlewild Airport after the Idlewild Golf Course that it displaced. The airport was originally envisioned as a reliever for LaGuardia Airport, which was already showing signs of insufficient capacity in the late 1930s.